I would argue that it’s not just the future of the internet; it’s the future of computing as a whole. Del Diax recently wrote an article entitled, “Cloud Computing, the Future of the Internet” in which she examines the pay-as-you-go computing utility that is saving companies thousands of dollars each month.
No longer do companies have to engage in a huge capital outlay for the servers, racks, and even people required for a traditional data center. They are now able to rent computing power and pay only for the compute (and expertise in the case of BlueLock) they use.
Diax interviewed Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress who claims, “The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in terms of infrastructure was buying servers. Now we lease them all month to month.”
BlueLock started talking about this infrastructure as a service idea a few years ago (when it wasn’t nearly as popular as it is now) and the trend towards outsourcing and renting servers and the licenses to run infrastructure has really caught on, specifically with the economy troubles that we’ve encountered. It just makes financial sense.
Cloud computing can be grouped into 3 categories – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS).
IaaS provides the infrastructure – and at BlueLock that includes the management and monitoring (people) required to run the infrastructure. Amazon’s EC2 and other players like GoGrid and RackSpace are providing just the infrastructure. No matter what level of infrastructure service you’re looking for, I think it’s become quite evident that the cloud, in all its grandeur, is really proving itself as the future of the internet and computing as a whole.
No longer do companies have to engage in a huge capital outlay for the servers, racks, and even people required for a traditional data center. They are now able to rent computing power and pay only for the compute (and expertise in the case of BlueLock) they use.
Diax interviewed Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress who claims, “The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in terms of infrastructure was buying servers. Now we lease them all month to month.”
BlueLock started talking about this infrastructure as a service idea a few years ago (when it wasn’t nearly as popular as it is now) and the trend towards outsourcing and renting servers and the licenses to run infrastructure has really caught on, specifically with the economy troubles that we’ve encountered. It just makes financial sense.
Cloud computing can be grouped into 3 categories – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS).
IaaS provides the infrastructure – and at BlueLock that includes the management and monitoring (people) required to run the infrastructure. Amazon’s EC2 and other players like GoGrid and RackSpace are providing just the infrastructure. No matter what level of infrastructure service you’re looking for, I think it’s become quite evident that the cloud, in all its grandeur, is really proving itself as the future of the internet and computing as a whole.
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